This article uses a life-course approach to investigate how and why migrants’ feelings of belonging change between childhood and young adulthood. Drawing on 24 in-depth retrospective interviews with young Romanian migrants who moved to Italy as children, the paper shows how young migrants’ belonging is shaped by the nature of social relations and by the level of acceptance or exclusion expressed by others in the receiving and origin countries, under specific institutional and socioeconomic contexts. Overall, the study demonstrates how life-course methodologies are an essential tool to capture the dynamic, changing nature of belonging.

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在意大利的年轻罗马尼亚移民的童年记忆：一种定性的生命历程方法

本文使用生命历程的方法来调查移民的归属感如何以及为何在童年和青年时期之间发生变化。该论文利用对童年移居意大利的年轻罗马尼亚移民的 24 项深入回顾性访谈，展示了社会关系的性质以及其他人在接受和排斥中表达的接受或排斥程度如何塑造了年轻移民的归属感。来源国，在特定的制度和社会经济背景下。总体而言，该研究展示了生命历程方法论如何成为捕捉动态、不断变化的归属感的重要工具。